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Johann Reinhold Patkul

1660–1707 · 17th century

Johann Reinhold Patkul was a Livonian nobleman who led the opposition of the Baltic German nobility to Charles XI's reduction of their estates. Sentenced to death in Sweden, he fled and helped build the alliance of Saxony-Poland, Denmark and Russia that attacked Sweden in 1700, starting the Great Northern War. Handed over to Charles XII in 1706, he was executed by breaking on the wheel.

Johann Reinhold Patkul
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